
Jonas Salk: Discovering The Shot that Saved the World – 20th century Polio Virus Epidemic
—There were 58,000 cases already reported in the year of 1952, and the number quickly escalated. With no cure, no progress, and very little hope,
—There were 58,000 cases already reported in the year of 1952, and the number quickly escalated. With no cure, no progress, and very little hope,
As you may already know, American football has been the most popular sport in the United States since 1972.1 American football has tenured the top
Winner of the Fall 2019 StMU History Media Award for Best Article in the Category of “Public Health & Medicine” Within recent years, many college
Winner of the Fall 2019 StMU History Media Award for Best Descriptive Article The year was 1985. Coca-Cola just released its “New Coke” with a
Many people believe that Type 1 diabetes is similar to Type 2 diabetes, but these diseases are actually very different from each other. Type 1
Summer of 1906 brought about an unexpected arrival into the Warren’s rented summer household when “… one of the Warren’s daughters became ill. Next, two
Mid-way through the nineteenth century, people still believed in the disease theory of miasma. Miasma was a type of “bad air” that was thought to
It was January 29, 1951 when Henrietta Lacks found herself walking into the “colored” section of Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital. An African-American mother of five,
People all over the world began calling it a wonder drug. Penicillin. The discovery of penicillin became a gateway for more transformative discoveries. But shockingly,
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